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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: RoeDent on August 14, 2017, 08:39:29 AM
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Which bands ended their career on a perfect note? I'm struggling to think of examples. Pink Floyd managed to hold their perfect ending (The Division Bell, and High Hopes) for 20 years or so but then they went and did The Endless River, thus ruining it. At the moment, Rush have perhaps got it, with Clockwork Angels and The Garden.
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I was thinking the same thing, Rush and The Garden. Perfect ending. Even their last tour, how they went to in reverse order on the tour until they were "gone".
The Division Bell, High Hopes is pretty damn perfect too. I know they released that "new" album, but I consider that almost just unreleased tracks.
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Electric Ladyland was the first to come to mind, if you ignore the multitude of posthumous releases (which I prefer to do).
I quite like Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl.
I couldn't get into it myself, but Bowie's Blackstar was very well received.
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Leonard Cohen and his You Want It Darker comes to mind. Not just because I love that album but also because of the themes that go throughout the album, he knew the end is near.
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I couldn't get into it myself, but Bowie's Blackstar was very well received.
It was stunning that Bowie, after such a long hiatus, could produce two excellent albums before his death.
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Speaking of bands that screwed up the ending... I point my finger at The Scorpions, doing another album after the last track on the "final" one was called The Best is Yet to Come, a perfect statement.
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I mean, depends on how you look at it, I would argue Abbey Road by The Beatles (the End medley is a great ending to the album) but technically Let it Be was released after, even if it was recorded before.
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Dillinger Escape Plan just released what they say will be their final album and I think it's a great way to end a career.
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I mean, depends on how you look at it, I would argue Abbey Road by The Beatles (the End medley is a great ending to the album) but technically Let it Be was released after, even if it was recorded before.
This is a great one.
Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
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Pink Floyd managed to hold their perfect ending (The Division Bell, and High Hopes) for 20 years or so but then they went and did The Endless River, thus ruining it.
Leonard Cohen and his You Want It Darker comes to mind. Not just because I love that album but also because of the themes that go throughout the album, he knew the end is near.
Speaking of bands that screwed up the ending... I point my finger at The Scorpions, doing another album after the last track on the "final" one was called The Best is Yet to Come, a perfect statement.
I agree with all of this.
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'Perfect note' being a great final release, then 'Innuendo' and 'Abbey Road' fit.
'Synchronicity' ....at their height in popularity, and their best album.
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The first band that came to mind, without reading anything but the OP subject line, was:
RUSH
/thread.
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Had they not toured without Bill Ward, i would say Black Sabbath. But the way they left him out of the whole reunion was not cool. I do like 13 as an album, though. And also The Devil You Know is an awesome ending for the Dio-fronted Sabbath.
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The first band that came to mind, without reading anything but the OP subject line, was:
RUSH
/thread.
*reopens thread*
Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
That album was an incredible, and poignant, closer to the band's career.
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The first band that came to mind, without reading anything but the OP subject line, was:
RUSH
/thread.
*reopens thread*
Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
That album was an incredible, and poignant, closer to the band's career.
As far as studio's album go. Agreed. But the band....much like the show, did go on. I think the tribute show would have been a perfect ending. Then they kept going. They're still going. Hard to call just their last album the end of their career.
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Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
But then there was Made In Heaven and the Paul Rodgers album, so it wasn't really the ending.
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I wouldn't say Dissociation is DEP's best album, but it's a pretty great way to go out.
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The first band that came to mind, without reading anything but the OP subject line, was:
RUSH
/thread.
*reopens thread*
Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
That album was an incredible, and poignant, closer to the band's career.
:lol
Innuendo was an amazing capper.
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I don't view either Queen+Lambert or the posthumous albums to be "Queen". IMO the last album of the band was Innuendo. The rest is "lost tapes" and "The Queen Experience".
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I don't view either Queen+Lambert or the posthumous albums to be "Queen". IMO the last album of the band was Innuendo. The rest is "lost tapes" and "The Queen Experience".
I don't either. I think it was a wise move for Queen to call themselves Queen+Paul Rodgers and Queen+Adam Lambert. It allows them to benefit by using the band name, but at the same time making clear it isn't quite the same. Very smart marketing.
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Rush, with Bowie being right behind them.
I would have said Queen - however, Made in heaven.
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Rush, with Bowie being right behind them.
I would have said Queen - however, Made in heaven.
As Rumbo said "lost tapes" It was the other band members finishing up songs. I don't count that as the true last album.
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Dillinger Escape Plan just released what they say will be their final album and I think it's a great way to end a career.
First band that came to my mind reading this post
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Out of the bands not already mentioned, Sentenced comes to mind immediately. "End of the Road", the last song they ever wrote, is excellent and it was a worthy ending for their "funeral" at Teatria back in the day. Their last album was received really well too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtC3hnea0E
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...and 'Abbey Road' fit.
Ah, but then they undermined that with Let It Be. Abbey Road should have been their swansong as far as studio albums go, but there you go.
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I mean, depends on how you look at it, I would argue Abbey Road by The Beatles (the End medley is a great ending to the album) but technically Let it Be was released after, even if it was recorded before.
This is a great one.
Queen Innuendo -- The Show Must Go On. This lyrics are haunting and poetic, the music haunting.
This. The Queen + albums don't count.
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Obviously, I'm biased, but definitely Rush. The last album was amazing. If I could pick any song from any album to be the last studio track on Rush's last studio record I would be hard pressed to find a better one than The Garden. And the last tour was absolutely phenomenal.
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Even without Queen+, you still have Made in Heaven, which undermines the finality of Innuendo and The Show Must Go On. And Made in Heaven includes Freddie, so you can't use the lack of Mercury as an excuse to exclude MIH from the canon. So Queen are out of the equation, as it were.
It's difficult, though, isn't it? So many band endings are ambiguous. There aren't that many definitive, "this is the end" moments in rock history.
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It's difficult, though, isn't it? So many band endings are ambiguous. There aren't that many definitive, "this is the end" moments in rock history.
I hope my favorite band of all time, Iron Maiden, will have this. I don't want them to end the way Black Sabbath did, dragged out amidst many years of uncertainty and lineup changes, with the risk of goddamn cancer having the final word on it instead of them (luckily Tony Iommi is doing well so far).
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It's difficult, though, isn't it? So many band endings are ambiguous. There aren't that many definitive, "this is the end" moments in rock history.
I hope my favorite band of all time, Iron Maiden, will have this. I don't want them to end the way Black Sabbath did, dragged out amidst many years of uncertainty and lineup changes, with the risk of goddamn cancer having the final word on it instead of them (luckily Tony Iommi is doing well so far).
The potential for that perfect ending could not have happened if Adrian and Bruce did not come back to Iron Maiden and would have probably ended the way that Sabbath did. However, since they did came back and five new albums strong with the same line-up and a big legion of fans, old and new, supporting them, I think their chance for that perfect ending is really high.
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And also The Devil You Know is an awesome ending for the Dio-fronted Sabbath.
I was thinking about this, but more in terms of Ronnie James Dio. He struggled for a number of years, but he was fantastic on this album and tour.
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Iron Maiden are definitely on the path to a perfect ending, will probably go the way of Rush.
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Iron Maiden are definitely on the path to a perfect ending, will probably go the way of Rush.
As long as we don't get Reraising Hell, I'm good with whatever happens.
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I am also biased, but I think the answer is Rush. Great last album and the final tour was really good.
Bowie went out great, too, releasing a fantastic album, one of his best, days before he died.
I might have said Pink Floyd, especially if Live 8 had been the last thing Floyd ever did, but while a solid release, The Endless River kind of took away from it.
Same for Queen and Made for Heaven. Had Innuendo been the end, that would have been fitting, but Made in Heaven counts as a real final release. I like Made in Heaven quite a bit, but it's not Innuendo.
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Up until a few months ago, I would have said Galactic Cowboys. Let it Go is *AMAZING*....but now they are releasing a new album, so that disqualifies them.
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Aside from Rush or Bowie, I would nominate Altar of Plagues. Teethed Glory and Injury was an amazing album, my favorite of 2013, and a really interesting change of sound for the band. Too bad they called it quits, but I guess at least they went out with a bang.
As for the Beatles, whether you count Abbey Road or Let It Be as their last album, either one works for me. I quite like Let It Be.
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I mean, depends on how you look at it, I would argue Abbey Road by The Beatles (the End medley is a great ending to the album) but technically Let it Be was released after, even if it was recorded before.
So much this.
The End medley is just :hefdaddy
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...and 'Abbey Road' fit.
Ah, but then they undermined that with Let It Be. Abbey Road should have been their swansong as far as studio albums go, but there you go.
The band themselves didn't undermine it. Others around them did (though you could put John Lennon in that "others" group, since he gave the tapes - in desperation - to Phil Spector.
I think it makes a difference if the band knows it's the end. I don't think REM's "Collapse Into Now" is the same album if they knew it was the last one when they made it.
I think Queen is the second or third best example (with the Beatles). The best? Glen Campbell. Two months before he passes, he releases his last studio album, and the final song is called "Adios".
I got to leave you on the California coast
Going where the water's clear and the air is cleaner
Than the California Coast
Our dreams of endless summers
They were just too grandiose
Adiós, adios
And I'll miss the blood red sunset
But I'll miss you the most
Adios, adios
Adios, adios
Sorry, huge Rush fan, but I think the "ending" of Clockwork Angels is a little over-rated. I also disagree with "The Endless River" as a miss; it is a tremendous epitaph for Rick Wright, a major part of the Floyd sound. It's a great album, especially at this stage of the career, but it's a little hyperbolic to say "/thread". It's not even top five for me.
1. The Beatles
1. Glen Campbell
3. Queen
4. Genesis (with Phil - "Fading Lights")
5. Mother Love Bone
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
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5. Mother Love Bone
I kinda object to this one. I mean, yeah, Apple was a fantastic album and all. But it was really their first full-length album, and they were still an unknown band on the rise that was about to take off, but never did because of Andrew's sudden passing. So they didn't really have much of a "career" to speak of. And then they basically transformed into Pearl Jam. So I'm not sure they really fit the spirit of what this thread is about.
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
Except that it's not. Counterparts is held in very high regard, and I would personaly rank Vapor trails above Clockwork angels. Not to mention that I've never seen any Snakes and arrows haters - it's not beloved, but there is no criticism surrounding it.
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
Except that it's not. Counterparts is held in very high regard, and I would personaly rank Vapor trails above Clockwork angels. Not to mention that I've never seen any Snakes and arrows haters - it's not beloved, but there is no criticism surrounding it.
I'm just being a jerk. I think Counterparts is longer than 20 years though. Personally I do like most of Vapor Trails. But you have just met your first S&A hater.
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Sentenced
Finland's answer to morose, melodic metal. In 2005, they announced that they would write one final album as a farewell, then tour for the rest of the year. The album was written specifically for the purpose of ending the band.
They filmed their final concert, intended as the band's funeral (their lyrics usually revolved around death, loss, and grieving). They played 24 songs - 5 of them with their original singer, who they invited back for just this one concert and filmed it for a live DVD. The final song on the album was intended as their farewell, and it was played at the end of the show as the final song of their career.
"End of the Road" Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtC3hnea0E
Here we are, now lay the burden down
We're coming to the end of our road
Sorrowful yet glorious somehow
To be humming this one last ode
So calm and still... it wasn't all that bad, or was it now?
Fulfilled... it doesn't only hurt to end it now
The funeral
The memories beneath the dust of years
They seem like those of someone deceased
There's no more to be done, or hoped or feared
Just waiting for the final release
So calm and thrilled... it wasn't all that bad, or was it now?
Still it doesn't only hurt end it now
Is life over, this life's over?
Or has it only just begun?
It grows colder, starts to moulder...
Coming apart yet still not done
Forever one
Essentially, this is kind of what Motley Crue did, but without the shitty albums and signing a contract and band member drama. The band just said "hey, this is it," put out a pretty kickass album and made the last show a funeral, which fit with their lyrics and themes. Sadly, one of the guitarists died a handful of years later, so the band is certainly done.
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
Except that it's not. Counterparts is held in very high regard, and I would personaly rank Vapor trails above Clockwork angels. Not to mention that I've never seen any Snakes and arrows haters - it's not beloved, but there is no criticism surrounding it.
I'm just being a jerk. I think Counterparts is longer than 20 years though. Personally I do like most of Vapor Trails. But you have just met your first S&A hater.
19 years between Counterparts and Clockwork Angels.
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Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Falling Up - Falling Up
Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Silverchair - Young Modern
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Textures - Phenotype
Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
Tokyo Jihen - Daihakken
How many albums have to be in their catalog qualifies?
Because if only 2:
Battle Circus - Battle Circus
Clann Zu - Black Coates and Bandages
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
Except that it's not. Counterparts is held in very high regard, and I would personaly rank Vapor trails above Clockwork angels. Not to mention that I've never seen any Snakes and arrows haters - it's not beloved, but there is no criticism surrounding it.
I'm just being a jerk. I think Counterparts is longer than 20 years though. Personally I do like most of Vapor Trails. But you have just met your first S&A hater.
19 years between Counterparts and Clockwork Angels.
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Hopefully Symphony X isn't on their way out. Their last album "Underworld" is fantastic, perhaps my fav SX album. I just hope "Swan Song" isn't their swan song.. I would like to see them make more albums and tour some more.
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Forgot about Sentenced.
I completely agree that it was a perfectly planned and executed ending for the band. They promised "This is it", and that was it, and yes, sadly that was definitively remarked by the untimely passing of the guitarist.
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I was also thinking about Thin Lizzy. They went out with a great album, Thunder And Lightning, and did a Farewell Tour. Their last show at Reading '83 is captured on a BBC Live In Concert CD, which is amazing!
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Sentenced
Finland's answer to morose, melodic metal. In 2005, they announced that they would write one final album as a farewell, then tour for the rest of the year. The album was written specifically for the purpose of ending the band.
They filmed their final concert, intended as the band's funeral (their lyrics usually revolved around death, loss, and grieving). They played 24 songs - 5 of them with their original singer, who they invited back for just this one concert and filmed it for a live DVD. The final song on the album was intended as their farewell, and it was played at the end of the show as the final song of their career.
"End of the Road" Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BtC3hnea0E
Here we are, now lay the burden down
We're coming to the end of our road
Sorrowful yet glorious somehow
To be humming this one last ode
So calm and still... it wasn't all that bad, or was it now?
Fulfilled... it doesn't only hurt to end it now
The funeral
The memories beneath the dust of years
They seem like those of someone deceased
There's no more to be done, or hoped or feared
Just waiting for the final release
So calm and thrilled... it wasn't all that bad, or was it now?
Still it doesn't only hurt end it now
Is life over, this life's over?
Or has it only just begun?
It grows colder, starts to moulder...
Coming apart yet still not done
Forever one
Essentially, this is kind of what Motley Crue did, but without the shitty albums and signing a contract and band member drama. The band just said "hey, this is it," put out a pretty kickass album and made the last show a funeral, which fit with their lyrics and themes. Sadly, one of the guitarists died a handful of years later, so the band is certainly done.
I forgot about Sentenced. For me, that's the perfect example, great farewell album and great farewell song (one of my favorite songs ever) and certainly great funeral concert.
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Clockwork Angels is a great way to go out, but I think it's enhanced by the absolute Rush suckage of the previous 20 years. Just sayin'..
Except that it's not. Counterparts is held in very high regard, and I would personaly rank Vapor trails above Clockwork angels. Not to mention that I've never seen any Snakes and arrows haters - it's not beloved, but there is no criticism surrounding it.
I'm just being a jerk. I think Counterparts is longer than 20 years though. Personally I do like most of Vapor Trails. But you have just met your first S&A hater.
19 years between Counterparts and Clockwork Angels.
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As mentioned before: Savatage - Poets and Madmen isn't the best but it's good enough. But a little part of me hopes that they will make another record.
If Van Halen doesn't get his ass off the ground A Different Kind Of Truth is not a bad way to end a career.
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Maybe I'm reading too much into the OP, but I thought ending the career in a great way was a bit more than just releasing a pretty good final album.
I still look to Rush for this one. Did a good, well received, ambitious final album, with a huge final tour that celebrated their entire career and they ended things on their terms.
Then I look at Queen, and the only arguments in favor of them having a perfect ending is the perspective that after Freddie, it stopped being queen, despite being billed as Queen (plus others, sure, but still Queen).
I don't think a lot of bands end their careers in great ways. It often ends with a string of irrelevant albums, or a huge break up, or changing members and losing that original touch.
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Maybe I'm reading too much into the OP, but I thought ending the career in a great way was a bit more than just releasing a pretty good final album.
I still look to Rush for this one. Did a good, well received, ambitious final album, with a huge final tour that celebrated their entire career and they ended things on their terms.
Then I look at Queen, and the only arguments in favor of them having a perfect ending is the perspective that after Freddie, it stopped being queen, despite being billed as Queen (plus others, sure, but still Queen).
I don't think a lot of bands end their careers in great ways. It often ends with a string of irrelevant albums, or a huge break up, or changing members and losing that original touch.
Or just a quiet fade, like The Kinks.
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Maybe I'm reading too much into the OP, but I thought ending the career in a great way was a bit more than just releasing a pretty good final album.
I still look to Rush for this one. Did a good, well received, ambitious final album, with a huge final tour that celebrated their entire career and they ended things on their terms.
Then I look at Queen, and the only arguments in favor of them having a perfect ending is the perspective that after Freddie, it stopped being queen, despite being billed as Queen (plus others, sure, but still Queen).
I don't think a lot of bands end their careers in great ways. It often ends with a string of irrelevant albums, or a huge break up, or changing members and losing that original touch.
Or just a quiet fade, like The Kinks.
Not too familiar with The Kinks, always been a bit too vanilla for all of that.
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Maybe I'm reading too much into the OP, but I thought ending the career in a great way was a bit more than just releasing a pretty good final album.
I still look to Rush for this one. Did a good, well received, ambitious final album, with a huge final tour that celebrated their entire career and they ended things on their terms.
Then I look at Queen, and the only arguments in favor of them having a perfect ending is the perspective that after Freddie, it stopped being queen, despite being billed as Queen (plus others, sure, but still Queen).
I don't think a lot of bands end their careers in great ways. It often ends with a string of irrelevant albums, or a huge break up, or changing members and losing that original touch.
I think for most bands it's a question whether their demise is a conscious decision or not. Rush simply retired, which meant they could prepare an ending they saw fit. Queen ended with Freddie's long-coming death, and that too liberated them musically in a lot of ways, allowing them to return to their roots, or do very pensive songs, without fear of career suicide. David Bowie, same thing.
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We just agree that Queen ended. I think ending on that Freddie tribute show would have been the greatest way any band could end.
I just disagree that they ended there.
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Maybe I'm reading too much into the OP, but I thought ending the career in a great way was a bit more than just releasing a pretty good final album.
Agreed. It seems like some are just going with "this band released a good final album."
To give a good example, by using a band I am not a big fan of, the current Guns N' Roses reunion tour has apparently been great and a huge success. Let's say that this tour was their ending. I would say that qualifies as a great ending, even though it is only a tour we are talking about (no new album to go along with it), given the self-inflicted turmoil that engulfed them for decades.
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I'm not a big GnR fan either, but I wouldn't mind seeing them at The Gorge in Washington State in early September. Especially now they got Slash back..
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Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Falling Up - Falling Up
Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Silverchair - Young Modern
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Textures - Phenotype
Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
Tokyo Jihen - Daihakken
How many albums have to be in their catalog qualifies?
Because if only 2:
Battle Circus - Battle Circus
Clann Zu - Black Coates and Bandages
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
I agree with you with Aereogramme, but Noctourniquet is not one of my favourite Mars Volta albums.
I may add also Oceansize. Their last album is the one I listen the most now, maybe I overplayed the others.
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Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Falling Up - Falling Up
Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Silverchair - Young Modern
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Textures - Phenotype
Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
Tokyo Jihen - Daihakken
How many albums have to be in their catalog qualifies?
Because if only 2:
Battle Circus - Battle Circus
Clann Zu - Black Coates and Bandages
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
I agree with you with Aereogramme, but Noctourniquet is not one of my favourite Mars Volta albums.
I may add also Oceansize. Their last album is the one I listen the most now, maybe I overplayed the others.
see I happen to really like Noctourniquet, contrary to many other fans. I like it more than both Octahedron (which I think was okay, especially for the band's intention/style with it), and Bedlam in Goliath which the mixing and production I find to be so much worse than Noctourniquet, Noctournique, almost by default, felt like a breath of fresh air.
Aereogramme were great, and it's a shame they never did anything after that. Iain Cook of course has found success with Chvrches, but I can't say I've ever cared for them. I just would think the hordes of fans they have would discover Aereogramme at some point, but I dunno if it's ever happened really.
On Oceansize, while I love them, to me, Self-Preserved is clearly my least favorite (and least listened to) album. It has some good work on it, but jeez, comparing it to Frames and Everything Into Position, I can't fathom ever seeing it in the same category. I even spoke to Mike Vennart a little about that last April when I saw him with Biffy Clyro, and the band was not in the best shape at the point they made Self Preserved. Largely per their drummer Mark Heron.
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Hopefully Symphony X isn't on their way out. Their last album "Underworld" is fantastic, perhaps my fav SX album. I just hope "Swan Song" isn't their swan song.. I would like to see them make more albums and tour some more.
Came here to post this, SX popped into my mind immediately after reading the title. Underworld is my favorite album of the past X years, if only they had released a live DVD of the tour. That said, hopefully it's not the end. The Legend never--
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The legend never dies.. Great song!
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Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Falling Up - Falling Up
Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Silverchair - Young Modern
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Textures - Phenotype
Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
Tokyo Jihen - Daihakken
How many albums have to be in their catalog qualifies?
Because if only 2:
Battle Circus - Battle Circus
Clann Zu - Black Coates and Bandages
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
I agree with you with Aereogramme, but Noctourniquet is not one of my favourite Mars Volta albums.
I may add also Oceansize. Their last album is the one I listen the most now, maybe I overplayed the others.
see I happen to really like Noctourniquet, contrary to many other fans. I like it more than both Octahedron (which I think was okay, especially for the band's intention/style with it), and Bedlam in Goliath which the mixing and production I find to be so much worse than Noctourniquet, Noctournique, almost by default, felt like a breath of fresh air.
Aereogramme were great, and it's a shame they never did anything after that. Iain Cook of course has found success with Chvrches, but I can't say I've ever cared for them. I just would think the hordes of fans they have would discover Aereogramme at some point, but I dunno if it's ever happened really.
On Oceansize, while I love them, to me, Self-Preserved is clearly my least favorite (and least listened to) album. It has some good work on it, but jeez, comparing it to Frames and Everything Into Position, I can't fathom ever seeing it in the same category. I even spoke to Mike Vennart a little about that last April when I saw him with Biffy Clyro, and the band was not in the best shape at the point they made Self Preserved. Largely per their drummer Mark Heron.
Bedlam is my favourite TMV album, but I don't listen to them almost anymore. I liked Noctourniquet more than Octahedron, but I didn't love both.
I like all the Oceansize albums equally. If I had to do a top 50 albums I would have troubles to choose one album only.
I think Aereogramme are still unknown as they were when they broke up...
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I mentally put posthumous releases into their own category, so I guess in that case I don't think of them as "spoiling" a good ending.
Queen ended, then Made in Heaven happened, but despite Freddy's voice on the album, it was a posthumous release, so I don't really count it.
Same with Pink Floyd and Endless River. Something like a tribute to Rick Wright or just a posthumous release, but not the "real" final album.
People were talking about perfect endings that were spoiled by the band actually carrying on, and Genesis comes immediately to mind. We Can't Dance was a fine album, and the closing track "Fading Lights" is itself a reference to the ending of it all. Then effing Calling All Stations came out, half-baked and poorly received, and ruined that beautiful ending. They even tried for a better ending with the 2007 reunion tour, but the songs were tuned down and slower, so it sounded like what it was: a bunch of old men trying to recapture the magic, and failing.
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The first band that came to mind, without reading anything but the OP subject line, was:
RUSH
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Yeah the hell! :hat
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I'm disappointed in myself for forgetting to mention Danger Days by MCR... guess I'm still hoping for a follow up.
Strapping Young Lad also ended strong with The New Black.
And Watershed by Opeth was a great ending as well. Shame about that shitty band that's been putting me to sleep with the same name.
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I'm not 100% if the band is over, but if they are, The Gathering.
Their last concert (that I could see) was in 2014 and featured, I'm pretty sure, every former band member joining them for different songs. Sounds like an amazing way to go out. Just wish they released a DVD and not just audio.
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Never heard of that band, but that sounds like a great way to go.
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Never heard of that band, but that sounds like a great way to go.
I'm hoping Metallica does a similar final show whenever it comes. They did it already with their anniversary thing, but it would also be a great way to go out.
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I mentally put posthumous releases into their own category, so I guess in that case I don't think of them as "spoiling" a good ending.
Queen ended, then Made in Heaven happened, but despite Freddy's voice on the album, it was a posthumous release, so I don't really count it.
Same with Pink Floyd and Endless River. Something like a tribute to Rick Wright or just a posthumous release, but not the "real" final album.
People were talking about perfect endings that were spoiled by the band actually carrying on, and Genesis comes immediately to mind. We Can't Dance was a fine album, and the closing track "Fading Lights" is itself a reference to the ending of it all. Then effing Calling All Stations came out, half-baked and poorly received, and ruined that beautiful ending. They even tried for a better ending with the 2007 reunion tour, but the songs were tuned down and slower, so it sounded like what it was: a bunch of old men trying to recapture the magic, and failing.
The way they played "Fading Lights" on the tour was great too - just the three of them. If'n I recall, that may be the only time that that three of them played alone on stage.
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I'm not 100% if the band is over, but if they are, The Gathering.
Their last concert (that I could see) was in 2014 and featured, I'm pretty sure, every former band member joining them for different songs. Sounds like an amazing way to go out. Just wish they released a DVD and not just audio.
I hope The Gathering aren't done, as their last record was really good.
I guess with Kaddisfly, the same can be said per they made their last record after being gone for 8 years, and it was really both for the fans and to complete the trilogy of albums they did. But like many fans, I am very much hoping they find the means to make more music in the near future.
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People were talking about perfect endings that were spoiled by the band actually carrying on, and Genesis comes immediately to mind. We Can't Dance was a fine album, and the closing track "Fading Lights" is itself a reference to the ending of it all. Then effing Calling All Stations came out, half-baked and poorly received, and ruined that beautiful ending. They even tried for a better ending with the 2007 reunion tour, but the songs were tuned down and slower, so it sounded like what it was: a bunch of old men trying to recapture the magic, and failing.
The way they played "Fading Lights" on the tour was great too - just the three of them. If'n I recall, that may be the only time that that three of them played alone on stage.
The 7/8 jam from "The Cinema Show" was always performed as a three-piece (Banks, Rutherford, Collins). This goes all the way back to the Seconds Out days, and they kept it that way. Probably just because it's kinda cool to keep doing it that way. So not an entire song, but a pretty significant jam.
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(Dammit! I knew that too, but wasn't 100% sure so I hoped no one would notice. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA).